Monday, November 25, 2013

Case of the Week 283

The following structures were seen on a bronchial brush specimen from an 83 year old male with a chronic cough.  The structures were moving when seen in a wet prep, and there was concern from the endoscopist that these were parasites.  The following photos are from the corresponding Papanicalaou stained cytology specimen.






















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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 25, 2013 at 2:07 PM

    Cilliated Epithelial Cells?

    Lee

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  2. AnonymousNovember 25, 2013 at 2:55 PM

    Cilliocytophthoria.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 25, 2013 at 3:19 PM

    Microscopic parasitic jellyfish? Just kidding. Looks like a nice case of ciliocytophthoria. We see this in our BAL's every now and then.

    -BHS

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  4. AnonymousNovember 25, 2013 at 3:43 PM

    Probaby, a few degenerating ciliated respiratory epithelial cells with attached tufts as well.

    -BHS

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  5. AnonymousNovember 25, 2013 at 4:05 PM

    Ciliocytophthoria. Is there an explanation for the unusual spelling?

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  6. AnonymousNovember 25, 2013 at 6:13 PM

    Ciliated epithelial cells of the respiratory tract. Considering how many things we breath in daily, it is quite marvelous they sweep them out more efficiently we can imagine.

    Florida Fan

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  7. UnknownDecember 6, 2013 at 9:07 AM

    I want to know more about this. This is awesome and interesting. Are these things we breathe in?

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  8. UnknownDecember 6, 2013 at 9:27 AM

    Thanks but i read more from your answers i found. this is my first time to this blog. thanks it's great

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  9. Axel Guillermo Montes FigueroaJune 16, 2018 at 2:10 PM

    May be a Lophomonas blattarum

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